As over two million people in Scotland effectively go back into lockdown today, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has admitted that she is “utterly scunnered and fed up” with the coronavirus restrictions ...

I recently emailed a journalist friend in Berlin to ask what he thought about his country's chancellor, Angela Merkel, and her handling of the Ukraine crisis. It was a work-related matter and I was ...

When Scottish broadcaster STV recently hit the streets of Hamilton to gauge the mood of voters in advance of Thursday’s crucial byelection, its political editor Colin Mackay returned with a pithy ...

THERE are 171,146 words in the English language, of which we each use around 700 every day. But only one comes close to summing up how the annus mingingus that is 2021 has left us all feeling.

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LORRAINE Kelly baffled Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley this morning after revealing she was “scunnered” by Scotland’s Euros loss. The sofa queen, 61, was chatting with the Good Morning Britain ...

Michael Gove has revealed he left Cabinet colleagues baffled when he used the Scots word “scunnered” in a Downing Street meeting. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was campaigning north of the ...

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